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Federal agents achieved the seizure of an arsenal, which, apparently, was within a dwelling on this border, where seized, fragmentation grenades, cartridges, including four 50-mm cartridges.The assurance, he said, was achieved after receiving an anonymous tip and officers moved to the site that had been reported, looked out to see several people running inside a home, according to information provided by a federal spokesman.It was mentioned that at five hours yesterday, when federal agents conducted surveillance tours at Virreyes Avenue and Calle Quinta, in the neighborhood Solidaridad, which houses the home marked with the number 40.

The federal employee in the operation said it was not possible secure people who were involved in the seizure of weapons. Apparently, just before the officers located the house where the artifacts of war, several people managed to escape and were possibly those who were guarding, but they ran off.

Elements of the Federal Police made available to the Agent of the Federal Public Ministry, fragmentation grenades, rifles, cartridges and magazines of different sizes.

Tucson, U.S. authorities arrested 21 suspected members of a criminal organization dedicated to human trafficking and drugs in the southern state of Arizona (United States) and who had connections with Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, officials said Monday.

"This criminal organization was well organized and constantly worked to evade police surveillance using sophisticated methods, "he said at a press conference Tom Horne, Arizona's attorney general, southern U.S. border with Mexico.

The group, led by Jesus Valencia Rodríguez, who is still at large ", different methods used to transport marijuana and groups of illegal immigrants through the territory of the Tohono O'odham Indian reservation.

Since 2008, Valencia Rodriguez has been identified as an important part of a cell of the Sinaloa cartel, responsible for coordinating the transportation of illegal immigrants and large shipments of marijuana from Mexico into the United States through the corridor of San Miguel, a path within Tohono O'odham reservation.

Law enforcement agencies in southern Arizona have established a relationship of at least 150 seizures of drugs with the group led by Valencia Rodriguez and seized about 14 thousand kilos of marijuana.

In February 2010, law enforcement agencies also seized 41 firearms that were en route to Mexico.The authorities were searching for 25 others in connection with this case.

LOS ANGELES .- The U.S. authorities arrested 27 people suspected of integrating a gang of drug trafficking and illegal immigrants working for the Sinaloa cartel on an Indian reservation in southern Arizona, USA, announced Thursday the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).

Twenty-seven of the 46 alleged members of the organization of Jesus Valencia Rodriguez, who operates on behalf of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, were accused of running a business illegally smuggle illegal immigrants, weapons, drugs and use of electronic networks for sales transactions drug, among others.

According to the DEA reported, citing the Attorney General of Arizona, Tom Horne, the group used different methods to enter tons of marijuana into the United States by the Tohono O'Odham Indian Nation, southwest of Tucson.

Since 2008, the authorities made from ​​this group more than 150 seizures of drugs with a total of 12 thousand 700 kilos of marijuana. Authorities also seized 41 weapons destined to Valencia in Mexico.

In early May, three Mexicans were convicted of conspiracy to exchange drugs and money for military weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft missile, also for use of the Sinaloa cartel, then the DEA reported.

The defendants were arrested in late 2009 as part of an undercover operation in several U.S. federal agencies.

The government of Barack Obama has risen to unprecedented figures the number of agents protecting the border of more than three thousand miles with Mexico and deployed in August for a year to 1,200 National Guard troops, to protect from the drug violence in Mexico .

A major marijuana and immigrant smuggling operation that used a route through a southern Arizona Indian reservation has been effectively dismantled, authorities said Thursday.

The group with ties to a Mexican drug cartel used a variety of methods to bring tons of marijuana into the U.S. through the Tohono O'Odham Indian Nation southwest of Tucson since 2008, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said. The trafficking organization connected to the Sinaloa drug cartel also brought illegal immigrants in the country, and returned cash and weapons to Mexico. pronounced

Twenty-one of 46 suspected members of the organization led by a Mexican resident have been arrested and face indictments on a variety of smuggling, conspiracy, money laundering and other state charges, Horne said. The leader, identified as Jesus Valencia Rodriguez, is believed to be in Mexico and remains at large.

Since 2008, more than 150 drug seizures involving about 28,000 pounds of marijuana have been linked to the group. Officials also seized 41 assault weapons that were bound for Valencia in Mexico.

Most disturbing, Horne said, was that the smugglers used sophisticated surveillance from hilltop locations to spot and avoid U.S. Border Patrol agents. The spotters used night vision equipment and radios. "It's pretty disconcerting when they have spotters in high spots so that they can tell when the Border Patrol is coming or when they're not there in order to be able to get the smugglers though without being detected," Horne said. "It illustrated the fact that we have to become more sophisticated in dealing with them."

State, federal and tribal authorities worked together to break up the organization.

The major entry point was a crossing that links the tribe's reservations in Mexico and the U.S. Members of the tribe freely cross the border there. The smugglers took advantage of the San Miguel Gate by recruiting members of the Tohono O'Odham Nation to help bring drugs and illegal immigrants into the U.S., Horne said. Some of those indicted are members of the Tohono O'Odham tribe. "The tribal members have to be able to go back and forth because their reservation is on both sides of the border," Horne said. "So we have to be able to detect when they're not legitimate members of the tribe engaged in their daily business but (actually) drug smugglers or other illegals."

The reservation covers more than 4,400 square miles and has become a regular conduit for drugs and migrants moving from the border north to Phoenix and beyond in recent years. Tohono O'Odham Chairman Ned Norris Jr. said the tribe wants the drug smuggling to stop to protect the U.S. and the reservation. The marijuana was brought into the U.S. by backpackers, or concealed in secret compartments or inside the tires of special ramp trucks used to cross border barriers.

32,000 log records and database of fingerprints and iris analysis of offenders are those lost by the municipal police as confirmed by the mayor, Adam Marco Quezada.The Mayor, Marco Quezada, said it was the previous administration that failed to make the record of the proceedings, "lost years of work. "

Confirmed that the police are about 32,000 records specific details of arrests which are not in the database. Also confirmed missing several records of detainees, which do not have the figure and can not be quantified. He added that for this purpose they hired at least 20 techs to recapture information to the database.

He said the loss of such databases creates problems in the police, when the background of criminals and repeat offenders is missing. This means that the current administration began to zero in the background of the criminals.

City police arraigned after major attackWritten by AM Group18.05.2011http://www.diariodeldesierto.com.mx/index.php? option=com_content&task=view&id=4834&Itemid=44Caborca​​, Son .- Three elements of the municipal police were arraigned by state authorities for investigation in relation to the assassination attempt last Monday, the operational commander of the municipal police Francisco Gutiérrez Moreno.A source close to the legal defense of the elements, confirmed this but declined to name the officers involved.The municipal corporation for its part has not issued an official version of events and keeps silent about the events Quiroz y Mora Avenue and 9th Street in the heart of the city, where there is a network of surveillance cameras.The commander was hit by three .9 mm caliber bullet when he parked to at a stop of a patrol car for a traffic violation, was attacked by three men in front of the officers without them doing anything.